Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- To: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
- Cc: quinot@infres.enst.fr, Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>, Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>, "Huneycutt, Doug" <doug.huneycutt@lmco.com>, 56821@bugs.debian.org, pb@enst.fr, quinot@enst.fr, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
- Date: 02 Feb 2000 18:40:34 -0600
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87aelji0e5.fsf@erwin.complete.org>
- Reply-to: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, 56821@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: Adam Di Carlo's message of "Wed, 02 Feb 2000 18:30:15 -0600"
- References: <[🔎] 200002030030.SAA00851@cafe.onshore.com>
Well, IMHO that makes it worse :-) Asking the user is the right
thingg, perhaps add some more info to the box or a help button. But
you should ask -- there may be other reasons not to overwrite the MBR.
-- John
Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:
> So ... um.... what we've ended up doing, which I'm not sure is the
> right thing, is to inhibit the prompt entirely unless there's an
> error.
>
> I'm not sure if that is the right thing to do, or whether it'd be more
> right to simply disable floppy and advanced mode.
>
> Please advise. Please do not flame. Less than 3 posts on this topic
> per hour per person please. :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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